Wattie's has said "NZ's Favourite" since 1934. The company behind it has been American since 1992. This is the story of how brand trust gets bought, transferred and quietly spent — and why your KiwiSaver might be funding the whole thing.
What I found when I started researching rural water — and why it matters before you make the move.
What's actually in your water, what happens to it between the treatment plant and your glass, and why understanding that changed what I do about it.
Most Aucklanders assume their water comes from clean bush catchments. About 15 percent comes from the Waikato River — 400 kilometres through dairy farms, geothermal country, and industrial towns. Here's what that means.
A former solicitor, a no-dig garden, and eleven Wairarapa farms working together. Little Farms just aired on Country Calendar — here's everything you need to know.
April 2026 testing found glyphosate in six of eight supermarket breads — highest in the wholegrain and seed-heavy loaves many of us choose for health. But the real story is what those everyday exposures may be doing to your gut bacteria.
New Zealand exports its premium food to the world and imports cheaper alternatives to fill the gap. Underneath that paradox sit several interconnected debates — the GE Technology Bill, glyphosate residues, imported food standards, and what organic certification can and can't protect.
When the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed in March, it didn't just disrupt oil. A third of the world's fertiliser trade moved through that channel. NZ farming is feeling it.
It started with one exceptional strawberry. Three months later: fragile processing capacity, hidden supply chains, and quiet resilience in NZ's food system.
There are now several places in New Zealand where you can learn how organic food actually works. Not just which label to choose, but the underlying practice — soil health, seed saving, what it takes to run a small market garden.
I started by turning over a butter packet. I ended up discovering a patchwork of farms, collectives, butcheries, and stores quietly trying to solve one of organic food's most stubborn problems — how do you get good food from a small farm to the people who actually want it?
For thirty years, Huckleberry Farms was the beating heart of organic food retail in Auckland. From a single Greenlane store in 1994 to twelve locations across the North Island, it built something the supermarket duopoly could never replicate. In June 2024, it was gone.
